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Scientists discover how air pollution triggers lung cancer
Sep 10, 2022 (AFP)
The research illustrated the health risk posed by the tiny particles produced by burning fossil fuels, sparking fresh calls for more urgent action to combat cli...
Heatwaves and wildfires to worsen air pollution: UN
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
A new report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) cautioned that the interaction between pollution and climate change would impact hundreds of ...
Study finds surge in illegal gold mining in Brazil
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
Gold output in Brazil, the world's 14th-biggest producer last year, has soared since the coronavirus pandemic pushed international prices to record highs. Of th...
Mercury pollution makes ducks more likely to get bird flu: study
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
Bird flu rarely infects humans but persistent outbreaks in the US and UK among other countries have led to millions of poultry being culled so far this year. Wi...
Filtered ferry engines hailed for tackling air pollution
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
La Meridionale, based in the southern French port of Marseille, showed off its innovative ship on Monday to the media. "It's an unprecedented solution, a world ...
Oil slick from cargo ship off Gibraltar reaches shore
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
The head of Gibraltar's government, Fabian Picardo, told Spanish news radio Cadena Ser that a slick from the stricken vessel had reached "parts of the coast of ...
Dead fish and depression on the banks of the Oder
Aug 27, 2022 (AFP)
Like many local businesses, Wloch has seen bookings plunge by 90 percent following the as yet unexplained catastrophe on the lush banks of a river between Polan...
UK minister defends plan to stop sewage spillover
Aug 27, 2022 (AFP)
Recent discharges of sewage into popular river and sea bathing areas have prompted widespread horror among the public, as well as alarm over waters shared with ...
Germany says 300 tonnes of dead fish pulled from Oder
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
"We are currently experiencing an environmental disaster that will damage this valuable ecosystem for a long time," German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke tol...
Engineering enzymes to help solve the planet's plastic problem
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
To illustrate the utility of their platform, they have engineered an enzyme that can successfully degrade poly(ethylene) terephthalate (PET), the plastic common...
Tracking marine plastic drift from space
Aug 24, 2022 (ESA)
In a hi-tech version of throwing out messages in bottles, prototype trackable buoys were deployed in the waters off Indonesia, whose myriad of islands results i...
Germany, Poland say toxic algae found after fish deaths
Aug 22, 2022 (AFP)
More than 100 tonnes (220,000 pounds) of dead fish have been recovered since July from the river which flows through both countries since July, sparking tension...
Polish firemen pull tonnes of dead fish from Oder river
Aug 16, 2022 (AFP)
"We'd never had an operation of this scope on a river before," said Monika Nowakowska-Drynda from the national firefighter press office. She confirmed that arou...
Thai authorities to charge park official in activist's murder
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
Ethnic Karen leader Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen, better known as Billy, went missing in April 2014 while working on a lawsuit accusing officials of destroying minori...
'Dead fish everywhere' in German-Polish river after feared chemical waste dump
Aug 13, 2022 (AFP)
The fish floating by the German banks near the eastern town of Schwedt are believed to have washed upstream from Poland where first reports of mass fish deaths ...
Biden signs bill aiding veterans exposed to toxins
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
Burn pits, lit up with jet fuel, were commonly used to dispose of waste in military camps during the years of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They exposed ...
Study shows environmental impact of 57,000 products sold in supermarkets
Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)
Scientists analyzed some 57,000 products sold in supermarkets in Britain and Ireland, in a large study published by the scientific journal PNAS. The researchers...
It's raining PFAS
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
A perspective article by researchers from Stockholm University and ETH Zurich published in Environmental Science and Technology suggests that PFAS define a new ...
First global map of cargo ship pollution reveals effects of fuel regulations
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
Tiny particles in the atmosphere, which are called aerosols and include pollution, can harm human health, but they also often have a cooling effect on the plane...
Ultra-fast fashion charms young despite damaging environment
Jul 29, 2022 (AFP)
Britain's Boohoo, China's SHEIN and Hong Kong's Emmiol are the main players in a sector that produces items and collections at breakneck speed and rock-bottom p...
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